Cognizant reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(83,052 total reviews)
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38% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Cognizant has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 83,052 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cognizant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Oct 25, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

It's a company where two in box model is great and each issue have multiple owners. The two in box model creates a push-pull effect which makes each account work as vibrant.

Cons

Too much networking in required. Local precence needs to be improved further and further local needs to be integrated with culture.

5.0
Oct 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work-life balance, good growth opportunities and overall a great place to work. It takes some time to get used to the culture but most people who make it beyond a year will usually stick around for the long haul.

Cons

As with any growing organization, managing a company of this size is getting more and more bureaucratic. Also, management needs to address the growth pangs of associates more creatively.

3.0
Oct 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

I was in an internal project, i was insulated from all client pressure. They don't force you to be there at office for 8 hrs. If you finish the work you can go home. Nice saravana bhavan south indian food, bit costly though. Lot of new hires, especially ladies to see if you are bored :). GYM. Transport. Lot of fun events.

Cons

You don't get to choose the technology/platform you work with. They will force you into something. Even good computer science students with good knowledge go about doing grunt copy paste work. Poor academy training. If you are a fresher don't expect to get challenging job for first 2 years. Everything depends on your manager and project. Only programmer analysts and associates write code, other refuse to write code and say they are into *managing* people. You will see lot of "pointy haired bosses" who do not understand the nature of technical work you are doing and yet try to manage you. The work area is totally noisy, the managers will be in calls all the time. Not good for programmers. For laterals they will ask to do a lot of things, you might have done sharepoint in your past, they will ask you work in windows applications.

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